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  • A Pragmatist Theory of Economic Reason

    Justifying Theories Being Taught in Business Schools

    by Alexander Styhre ...
    This book critically examines the concept of rationality, a central theme in economics and management theory, through the lens of an analytical philosophy framework. Alexander Styhre advocates for rationality to be grounded in practical reason, emphasizing the shared capacity to use language as a means of expressing ideas, beliefs and propositional attitudes.Styhre explores the key theories used ... Read more

    $41.59 CAD

  • Innovation Management and the Law

    An Institutional Approach

    by Alexander Styhre ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society
    In economic theory and in management studies, innovation is widely regarded as the motor of economic activities and as being the primary source of renewal in the economic system. This view emphasizes how innovation work is organized in specialized teams inside the firm, or, alternatively, located to start-ups and similar small ventures that are strongly incentivized to innovate to survive. Rather ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Organizations, Institutions, and Intellectual Norms

    An Analytical Philosophy View of Institutional Change

    by Alexander Styhre ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society
    Organizations, Institutions, and Intellectual Norms: An Analytical Philosophy View of Institutional Change provides a new perspective on institutional theory by incorporating an analytical philosophy framework. This volume critiques the traditional assumptions that institutional logics or work inherently shape societal structures, arguing instead that intellectual norms and everyday language play ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • The Business of Affordable Housing

    Case Studies of the Commercial Supply of Affordable Homes

    by Alexander Styhre ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
    Despite the conventional wisdom that affordable housing, either in the form of homeownership or through access to rental units, has beneficial effects for households, society, and the economy more broadly, there is a noteworthy lack of empirical studies of housing development and construction companies or building societies that actively work to supply this asset class in the economy. There are ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • The Unfinished Business of Governance

    Monitoring and Regulating Industries and Organizations

    by Alexander Styhre ...
    Series series New Perspectives on the Modern Corporation series
    The legal, regulatory and ethical frameworks guiding governance decisions are highly politicised and subject to intense debate. This book discusses governance theory in relation to corporations, universities and markets. Confronting the challenges of governing these three core areas, Alexander Styhre explores the connections between governance and the production of economic value, shareholder ... Read more

    $41.59 CAD

  • The Making of Shareholder Welfare Society

    A Study in Corporate Governance

    by Alexander Styhre ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Corporate Governance
    The Making of Shareholder Welfare Society traces and accounts for the debates and discussions between law and economics scholars and mainstream legal scholars, management theorists, and economic sociologists. This is done in detail to demonstrate that the shareholder welfare society was built from the bottom up, beginning with theoretical propositions regarding alleged market efficiencies and ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • The Financialized Economy

    Theoretical Views and Empirical Cases

    by Alexander Styhre ...
    Series series Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking
    Social science theorists from various scholarly disciplines have contributed to a recent literature that examines how the finance industry has expanded and now wields increasing influence across a variety of economic fields and industries. In some cases, this tendency towards a more sizeable and influential finance industry has been referred to as "the financialization" of the economy. This book ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • The Business School Curriculum Debate

    Scientific Legitimacy versus Practical Relevance

    by Alexander Styhre ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Management Learning and Education
    With more than 14,000 business schools worldwide, what is included in their curricula matters for how the economy and the corporate system are managed. Business schools should be subject to scholarly inquiries and critical reflection. While many studies of business schools examine its general role in the tertiary education system and in society more broadly, this volume examines how one specific ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Status and Organizations

    Theories and Cases

    by Alexander Styhre ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book examines social status as a social mechanism and a social fact that strongly shapes how markets and organizations are regulated, managed, and preserved over time.The first part of this book identifies a number of organizational issues and managerial concerns that can be framed as being a matter of the cognitive perspectives of social actors, and better explained on the basis of such ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Reproductive Medicine and the Life Sciences in the Contemporary Economy

    A Sociomaterial Perspective

    by Alexander Styhre ...
    In Reproductive Medicine and the Life Sciences in the Contemporary Economy, Alexander Styhre and Rebecka Arman illuminate issues that have given rise to terms such as 'the bioeconomy' and 'the baby business'. The life sciences play an increasing role in providing services and commodities consumed by businesses and the public. Based on an in-depth study of clinics offering assisted fertilization in ... Read more

    $76.94 CAD

  • The Financialization of the Firm

    Managerial and Social Implications

    by Alexander Styhre ...
    The term 'financialization' denotes the general tendency in the advanced Western economies to allow a substantial proportion of taxable profits to accumulate in the finance industry. Alexander Styhre discusses the financialization of the firm in the period after 1980 and stresses how key managerial activities have been redefined on the basis of finance theory and free-market ideologies. This book ... Read more

    $41.59 CAD

  • The Economics of Affordable Housing

    by Alexander Styhre ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
    The economic system of competitive capitalism has proven to be both resilient and flexible over time and has contributed to the economic welfare of citizens in liberal and coordinated market economies in diverse regions and countries. At the same time, over the entire post-World War II period, there has been a notable endemic shortage of affordable housing in many advanced economies.This book ... Read more

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